Bent Åserud (born 5 April 1950) is a Norwegian musician and film score composer.
[1] Åserud co-founded the group Juniper Greene in 1966, where he was a vocalist and played the guitar.
The band started playing blues but later changed to progressive rock.
[1] Along with Geir Bøhren, Åserud had his breakthrough as a film score composer for Orion's Belt with the theme Svalbardtema,[3] which has become an unofficial anthem for Svalbard.
[4] Åserud created, along with Bøhren, the official anthem for the 1994 Winter Olympics.